Quotes About Insecurity

La envidia es la religión de los mediocres. Los reconforta, responde a las inquietudes que los roen por dentro y, en último término, les pudre el alma y les permite justificar su mezquindad y su codicia hasta creer que son virtudes y que las puertas del cielo sólo se abrirán para los infelices como ellos

Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)

A inveja é um cego que quer arrancar os olhos do outro.

Obi?ajno je tako, da ve? ko ima nekdo daru, bolj dvomi o tem, ali ga ima. In obratno.

A félelem a józan ész jele. Csak a kötöznivaló bolond nem fél semmitÅ'l.

Zavist je slijepac koji ti želi iskopati o?i.

Não precisa de o admitir,se isso põe em risco o seu sentido de masculinidade.Sei muito bem que os homens acham que o tamanho da sua teimosia corresponde ao tamanho das suas partes pudendas.

We don't choose who we love, Fernandito. Perhaps it's just that I don't know how to love anyone, and I don't know how to let anyone love me.

Dunces and blockheads live in a state of perpetual envy.

tertulia literaria los viernes por la noche a la que no me invitaba porque sabía que todos los asistentes, poetastros frustrados y lameculos que le reían

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa." "Then I must be quite something," Isabella replied.

Por norma general, cuanto más talento se tiene, más duda uno de tenerlo.

Jaloezie is de religie van de middelmatigen. Het sterkt ze, het beantwoordt aan de onrust die vanbinnen aan ze knaagt en uiteindelijk verteert het hun ziel, terwijl het ze toestaat hun eigen kleinzieligheid en hebzucht te rechtvaardigen totdat ze denken dat het deugden zijn.

His eyes gave off an air of bravado and arrogance, of disdain and sugary politeness. Julián smiled at him openly, reading insecurity, fear, and emptiness under that shell of vanity and complacency.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa.

tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.

Usted no cree que nadie la pueda querer porque no se quiere a sí misma y piensa que nunca nadie la ha querido. Y que no se lo perdona al mundo.

Pasada la primera juventud, empieza el segundo periodo, en el que uno se da cuenta de la fragilidad de la propia vida y lo que en un principio es una simple inquietud va creciendo en el interior como un mar de dudas e incertidumbres que te acompañan durante el resto de tus días.

You're brave one minute, skittish the next. You need to be gentled, to learn that the hand that's stroking you can be trusted.

Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.

No boy to swagger down the hall with his arm around her, boasting with his walk that he dated this girl.

Girls wanted girls to have boyfriends, but they also wanted to tease, find any raw nerves that might be exposed, and expose them more.

WE ARE ALL AFRAID of being alone. To teenagers, the idea of being alone is almost as bad as the idea of dying, which at least has a certain romantic appeal.